Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-15
beer license at 500 instead of $50 was

Yeas-Senators Allen, Armistead, Bell,
Burgess, Barney, Calhoun, Camp, Clal-
borne, Davis, Douglass OF Jefferson,
Douglass of Grayson, Frank. Garrison,
Jarvis, Mcdonald, Simkins, Terrell,
Woods, Woodward. Total, l9.
Nays-Abercrombie, Glssscock, Mac
manus, Stinson, Upshsw. Total, 3.
Absent-SenstorslField, Gregg, Harr,-
son, Houston, KnittIe, Lane, Pope.
Total, 7.
The amendment fixing the license on
beer at Sl0G was made part OF the bill
yeas, 81; nays, 4.
THE HOUSE.
House bill No. 1854, to validate the acts
of the state land board, was considered
as the pending business.
Mr.. Browning offered an amendment
providing in effect that all sales and leases
of the lands mentioned in the bill, made
by the board, upon which purchasers or
lessees have paid the principal, Interest or
rentals, as provided in the act of April
IL, 1888, be and the same are hereby val
idated, and the rules and regulations
made by the board with reference thereto
be declared binding.
Mr.. Bell of Cook reiterated his oppo-
sition to the bill.
Mr.. Strong stated that there were
about 1900 purchasers of these lands in
terested in the acts Of the board.
Mr.. Browning argued that the land
board, though having good intentions,
had gotten off on the wrong track and
that innocent purchasers should be pro-
tected by validating the acts of the board.
Mr.. Parker offered substitute for the
Dill and amendment and to ratify and
confirm the action Of the land board, and
providing that the sales of land to actual
settlers where the lands were sold at
some other place than that provided for
by law and the rules Of the board, be
ratified and validated.
The substitute was adopted, but was
subsequently recOnsidered and defeated.
The Browning amendment recurring,
Mr.. johnson offered the following as
substitute: That all sales or leases
made at other places than those provided
by law, shall not, on that account, be
held invalid, but the same shall be valid
as if made at the proper place.
The question was argued by Mr.. Camp,
MI. Moore of Travis and others in about
the same way as on Saturday.
Mr.. Payne argued that it would be as
proper to validate all the acts of
the board as some Of them,
and without some Investigate
and report of q committee in the matter
he was constrained to oppose the whole
business and made a motion to table &C
COrdInglY. LOst-yeas, Al; nays, As.
The Johnson substitute was adopted by
vote of 55 to SO, and as thus amended
the bill was engrOssed.
The House considered Mr.. Pcender-
CASTS local option bill, substitute House
bill No. 257, amending the law prohibit
ing the unlawful selling Of Intoxicating
liquors and defining and prohibiting what
are known as "b!ind tigers"
Mr.. GarwoOd offered an amendment
striking out the Imprisonment feature in
the penalty. Lost.
Mr.. BiaTd of Lamar offered an amend
ment prescribing blank form for physi-
clans giving certificates for liquor for pa
tients, to be known as physicians slcO-
holic prescriptions.
MIR. Moore OF Travis offered Is a sub
stitute, which Mr.. Biard accepted, more
elaborate amendment covering tie same
ground. 1t requires stub prescription
books to be gotten from the Comp troller's
office and records kept for the Informs
ton Of the county commissioner.
MIR. Camp offered an amendment that
prescriptions she'll DE written. Adopted.
The Moore amendment was adopted.
Also an emergency amendment.
The vote on the final passage Of the bill
resulted-yeas, &c; nays, Is.
A resolution Was offered by Mr.. Dolan
that the future speeches Of members be
limited to five minutes each, and to only
one speech by any member on the same
subject.
Mr.. Richardson offered q resolution in
viting Hon B. j. Northrop Of the Ameri-
can Forestry Congress to address the
House this evening.
House adjourned till O'Clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House in afternoon session took
up substitute Senate bill No. 2l9, q gen
eral land bill for the sale and lease of the
free school, University and Asylu lands,
and to prevent their unlawful
Enclosure with a substitute House bill
offered in it's place by the House com
mittee. The general features of the bill
have been published. The Commissioner
of the Land Cffice is vested with the
power to enforce the act.
Mr. Moore of Travis favored the Senate
Jill oLSA LtOFNu w GiGSL klS 1LOuSC Jill
He thought the Senate bill the best
measure presented.
Mr.. Bell of Denton, chairman of the
spoke in favor of the House
bill, contending that every
good feature in the Senate bill was en-
braced in the House bill, and that the
latter contained other good features. ~
Mr.. Payne spoke in favor OF the Senate
bill. Under the House bill, he argued,
no man would go into Greer county To-
settle on so small q quantity Of land rs
GAO acres as the House bill proposed.
Under the Senate bill, on the other hand,
parties would lease the land Of that
county, half of the public domain of
which under the existing law had been
set apart for the free school fund and the
other half to pay the public debt, and one
advantage Of this, besides getting the
land utilized, would be the assertion of
the right OF Texas to Greer county.
Pending q molten to adjourn, Mr.. Nc
Gaughey got leave to introduce his bill,
one of the most important Of the session,
entitled "An act to perfect the o-ganiZa-
ton Of the University of Texas and It's
branches. To give to the University re-
gents control of said branches and of the
lands, to appropriate the scrap lands in
he organized counties to the common